An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitics is not an exact science.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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Government is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Great men have great dogs.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
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Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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